How to cut a glass tabletop - GIF

**tonyfoale** · May 11, 2019, 01:53 PM

Picture frames, clock faces etc.

**Toolmaker51** · May 11, 2019, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

And where are the discs being thrown, where at least they're not breaking against each other?

And the sleeves? Is that safety gear; but what about the grommets?

And gloves/sleeves PPE, but no eye protection?

And the wagon wheel cart?

Tony Foale says picture frames, clocks. . .highly likely. Never thought of them; looking around nothing round at home like that.

I think the grommets are just vents, the worker [she?] uses coated gloves nice nonslip grip. Safety glasses would be common elsewhere; glass is thin and light and little stored energy, not too close to face, but still.
That volume is probably going right back on a conveyor to assembly, spaced by rate they're separated from strip.
The cart is scrap, as the barrel fills.

**Hoosiersmoker** · May 13, 2019, 05:13 AM

If I had to guess where the disks are used I'd say dollar store picture frames?

**marksbug** · May 13, 2019, 07:08 AM

looks like he is throwing to his old buddy nub so he can set them in the frames.

**Frank S** · May 13, 2019, 08:17 AM

My vote would be the next step would be to grind the edge then placed in an oven to soften the glass to allow it to be shaped into a slight dome. I have a clock with a domed shaped glass just about that size. Also the picture frame comment is a good one.
Make a visit to the house of frames and you can find any number of round or oval shaped frames both with flat and domed glass